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Although many programs claim to help young people, schools, or communities prevent violence, little empirical evidence exists regarding their effectiveness. Recently, the Centers for Disease Control funded a wide variety ...

Let's start with a basic premise about evaluation--we benefit by knowing how our programs work and what we could do to make them better. From this perspective, evaluation is merely a tool for learning more about programs. ...

The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) uses a variety of different pavement marking systems and has experienced a wide range of pavement marking performance. In an effort to maximize marking performance and to ...

Unlike many issues in family life education, the effectiveness of caregiving interventions has received considerable attention. Although many of the early studies simply looked at satisfaction with the services, and rarely ...

The challenge of detecting a change in the distribution of data is a sequential decision problem that is relevant to many engineering solutions, including quality control and machine and process monitoring. This dissertation ...

Research on spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) is not well grounded in theory, and SDI practice often does not adequately take into account previous experiences. The purpose of this paper is to raise awareness about ...

Participatory sensing services based on mobile phones constitute an important growing area of mobile computing. Most
services start small and hence are initially sparsely deployed. Unless a mobile service adds value while ...

Digital humanities scholarship has long acknowledged the abundant theoretical advantages of text encoding; more questionable is whether the advantages can, in practice and in general, outweigh the costs of the usually ...

Little is known about signaling pathways, besides those of neurotrophic factors, that are operational in adult spiral ganglion neurons. In patients with sensorineural hearing loss, such pathways could eventually be targeted ...

Bioremediation is one suggested technology for hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX), as well as alternate explosive contaminants. The potential use of extracellular electron shuttling compounds to mediate electron ...

One of the enduring images from World War II is the photograph of the face of the GI in the surf on the Normandy beachhead, taken by Robert Capa and originally published in Life Magazine. The photograph now appears in most ...

Mariner family transposable elements are widespread in animals, but their regulation is poorly understood, partly because only two are known to be functional. These are particular copies of the Dmmar1
element from Drosophila ...

This document includes three different review forms that have been designed to examine the content and instructional processes of family life education programs. These forms can be used to compare and contrast different ...

Since 1994 I have been trying to figure out how to use information technology in conducting family life education. My sense is that none of us who are trying this work really know exactly what we should be doing or how to ...

While technology scaling has presented many new and exciting opportunities, new design challenges have arisen due to increased density, and delay and power variations. High level synthesis has been touted as a solution to ...

Feedback is a key element in online programs. It keeps alive the flow of communication between the members of the virtual community, and it helps to improve the effectiveness of the program. In this study, we look into the ...